FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance Monday March 2nd, 2026 9am-1pm – Vedlikeholdsdetaljer

Monthly maintenance will take place on Monday March 2nd, 2026. Our maintenance tasks should be completed between 9am-1pm.

NOTICES:

• Training: Upcoming training from FASRC and other sources can be found on our Training Calendar. at https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

• Status Page: You can subscribe to our status to receive notifications of maintenance, incidents, and their resolution at https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/ (click Get Updates for options).

• We'd love to hear success stories about your or your lab's use of FASRC. Submit your story here.

MAINTENANCE TASKS

Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

• Slurm scheduler update

  • Audience: All cluster users

  • Impact: Jobs will be paused during maintenance

• OOD node reboots

  • Audience; All Open OnDemand users

  • Impact: OOD nodes will reboot during the maintenance window

• Login node reboots

  • Audience: All login node users

  • Impact: Login nodes will reboot during the maintenance window

• Netscratch retention purge

  • Audience: All users of Netscratch

  • Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed. Please note that retention cleanup can and does run at any time, not just during the maintenance window.

Thank you,
FAS Research Computing
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/